Promoting Heritage Language in Northwest Russia / Laura Siragusa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Siragusa, Laura, author.

Series:

Routledge studies in linguistic anthropology ; Volume 146

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and languages--Ability testing.

Language and languages.

Language revival--Social aspects.

Language revival.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxvi, 244 pages).

Place of Publication:

New York : Taylor & Francis, 2018.

Summary:

This volume illustrates how language revival movements in Russia and elsewhere have often followed a specific pattern of literacy bias in the promotion of a minority's heritage language, partly neglecting the social and relational aspects of orality. Using the Vepsian Renaissance as an example, this volume brings to the surface a literacy-orality dualism new to the discussion around revival movements. In addition to the more-theoretically oriented scopes, this book addresses all the actors involved in revival movements including activists, scholars and policy-makers, and opens a discussion on literacy and orality, and power and agency in the multiple relational aspects of written and oral practices. This study addresses issues common to language revival movements worldwide and will appeal to researchers of linguistic anthropology, sociolinguistics, education and language policy, and culture studies.

Contents:

Introduction: revival of a heritage language a question of literacy and orality

Vepsian representations and language in history

Multilingual Russia: superdiversity meets language revival

Revaluation of language: field work as a give-and-take phenomenon

Metaphors of language: independent entity vs. experience of life

A way to make sense of the world using dialects in villages

Vepsän kel' and the city

Education and the babushka

Conclusion revitalizing a heritage language towards multimodality and "multispatiality".

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